A Life in Letters

by George Orwell

Easton Broad, 34

  Eastwood, Christopher, 7-8, 8

  Eccles Grammar School, 27

  Edelman, Maurice, 470, 471

  Edinburgh, 318, 370, 408, 424, 456, 469, 482

  Edwards, Bob, 72, 73

  Edwards, Ruth Dudley, 85

  Eliot, T. S., 514; L: 236; 14, 44, 65, 195, 230, 230, 235, 281, 356, 419, 447, 483, 491

  Ellis, Havelock, 48

  Embankment, the, 20

  Emperor's New Clothes, 338

  Empson, William, 214, 215, 477

  End of the Corridor, The, 451

  Enemies of Promise, 7, 102, 144, 145, 357, 406

  Enemy, The, 16, 19, 51

  England, longing to see it, 162

  English and American languages, 40, 44, 45, 48, 63, 64, 218, 227, 227, 302, 446-7

  English People, The, 225, 225, 270, 358, 359

  Entertainment Tax, 20, 21

  equivalent prices: see prices Eric & Us, 8. 10, 445, 473; website 366

  Erval, N., 274

  Esperantists/Esperanto, 67, 226, 227

  Esprit, 403, 404

  essays, book of: see Inside the Whale Esther Waters, 408

  Eton College, x, xi, 3, 7, 7, 8, 52, 62, 63, 145, 145, 268, 306, 315, 345, 389, 389, 420

  Evening Standard, 288, 406, 452, 472

  Evers, Harvey, 248, 249, 261

  exchange rates, 72, 74, 119, 331, 437

  Existentialism, 404, 420

  Eyre & Spottiswoode, 229, 230

  Faber & Faber (and as Faber's), 14, 15, 218, 230, 230, 231, 236, 281

  Fabian Society, 202, 202, 365

  Facade, 90

  Fairchild Family, The, 19

  fairy stories, 11, 45, 225, 229, 251, 281, 284, 285, 338, 339

  family saga planned, 169, 174

  Far East, 266, 312

  Farex, 254, 256

  Farrell, J.T., 413, 414

  Fascists/fascism, 12, 84, 87, 88, 89, 92, 106, 121, 138, 381; anti-Fascists, 99

  Fate of the Middle Classes, The, 57

  Faulkner, William, 39, 44

  Federacion Espanola de Internados y Deportados, 477

  fellow-travellers, 457, 464

  Ferguson, Niall, 203

  Fernwood House, 257, 260 (in address) Fielden, Leslie, 213, 214

  Fierz, Mabel and Sinclair, 14, 14, 53, 54

  fille de l'air, La, 320

  films, 21, 33, 35, 61, 115, 195, 238, 267, 310, 331, 340, 385, 458

  Finland, 176, 177, 336, 450

  firearms, purchase of, 163

  First Europe, The, 441

  Fischer, Ruth, 460, 461, 463, 477, 480

  fishing, 75, 251, 282, 314, 320, 323, 324, 352, 363, 389, 406, 413, 416, 422, 431, 445, 450, 462, 490

  Flaubert, Gustave, 15, 152

  Fleche, La, 153

  'Fletcher', 227, 228

  Fletcher, Margaret, 250, 255, 366, 370, 389, 390, 422, 425; and see Nelson, Margaret Fletcher, Robin, 315, 366, 370, 389, 389, 390, 440

  Flower, Desmond, 108

  flying bomb, 221, 423

  Fontaine, 224, 225, 274, 444

  Foot, Michael, xii, 296, 296, 300, 380, 470

  Foreign Office, 453, 480, 480

  Forster, E.M., 43, 195, 212, 213, 215, 409

  'Forty Years On', 26, 26, 52

  For Whom the Bell Tolls, 297, 301

  Fowler, H.W., 48, 49, 447

  Fox, The, 289, 325

  France/the French, 72, 81, 120, 123, 126, 138, 151, 153, 155, 157, 179, 184, 187, 204, 214, 222, 225, 242, 261, 262, 272, 274, 285, 286, 287, 288, 290, 297, 298, 299, 300, 301, 308, 310, 337, 353, 384, 391, 392, 394, 404, 417, 420, 460 (French et passim) Franco, Gen. Francisco, 31, 69, 70, 87, 108, 109, 129, 137, 138, 156, 190, 232, 285, 417, 460

  Frays College, 3, 25, 45

  Freedom Defence Committee, 348, 382; Bulletin, 363

  Freedom Press, 291, 426

  'Freeman, John', 221

  Freeman, Richard Austin, 444, 444

  French Foreign Legion, 157

  French Morocco: see Morocco Friends of Durruti, L: 227; 228

  Fuller, J.F.C., 203

  fungus, 16, 17

  Fyfe, Theodore, 21

  Fyvel, Tosco, 514;L: 460; 183, 419, 421

  Galapagos Islands, 33

  Galsworthy, John, 101

  Gandhi, Mahatma, 190, 232, 400, 400, 402, 404, 456, 474

  'Gandhi in Mayfair', 224, 225

  Gardner, Frank, 148

  Garnett, Richard, 19, 19

  Garrigill, 251, 255

  gas masks, 121, 126, 127

  General Election, 123, 133, 134, 139

  prospects for, 131, 132, 136, 138, 163

  George, Duke of Kent, 44, 45

  George, Daniel, 221, 230, 235

  'George Orwell: Nineteenth Century Liberal', 328, 331

  Germans/Germany, 75, 83, 88, 97, 122, 126, 131, 132, 153, 155, 164, 168, 171, 173, 180, 187, 189, 191, 203, 209-9, 232, 233, 242, 246, 263, 264, 265, 266, 272, 276, 284, 285, 286, 291, 292, 293, 300, 302, 303, 305, 306, 309, 310, 311, 312, 331, 341, 343, 354, 383, 454, 458, 464, 471, 474, 479, 489, 481 et passim Gerrard's Cross, 22, 23

  ghost seen, x, 12

  Gibraltar, 133, 137

  Gillie, D'Arcy, 454, 459

  gin, 421

  Girl's Own Paper, 51

  Giroux, Robert, 452, 453

  Gissing, George, 375, 399, 408, 413, 414, 439, 467, 470, 484

  Glasgow, 73, 101, 282, 313, 316, 320, 322, 323, 348, 351, 352, 366, 368, 370, 375, 379, 390, 403, 482, 485

  Glengarrisdale, 361

  Glimpses and Reflections, 101

  Glorious, HMS, 71, 184

  Goalby, Margaret M., L: from Jennie Lee, 68; xv goat(s), 59, 64, 67, 112, 115, 118, 125, 128, 129, 130, 141, 143, 144, 147, 184; and see Muriel Golden Country, the, 222

  Gollancz, Victor, 514; L: 47, 78, 86, 173, 344, 349, 350; 3, 10, 15, 31, 39, 41-2, 42, 43, 47, 49, 56, 68, 81, 85, 87, 88, 89, 102, 107, 115, 140, 169, 172, 172-3, 174, 176, 206, 207, 211, 211, 225, 230, 394, 403, 404, 409, 454, 460, 492

  contract with, 167-8, 228-9, 231, 233, 234, 234, 235, 235, 236, 240, 269-70, 332, 333, 341, 342, 344-5, 345, 349, 350

  has treated him well, 168, 269, 351

  Gorachek, Vladimir, 480

  Gorer, Geoffrey, 514;L: 61, 88, 106, 174, 175, 287; 43, 105, 469

  L: from Eileen, 128; Gottwald, Klement, 395

  Govaerts, Bert, 79

  Gow, A.S.F., 515; L: 304; 63

  GPU(Soviet secret police), 152

  Grandchildren of the Ghetto, 452

  'Grandeur et decadence du roman policier anglais', 244, 444

  Graves, Robert, 44

  Great Gatsby, 469

  Great Morning, 402

  Greece, 45, 266, 380

  Green Line buses, 105, 105

  Greene, Graham, 412, 460

  Greenwich, 77, 102, 161, 166, 188, 188, 237

  'Greystone', 221, 242, 254, 255, 261

  groundnut scheme, 375

  Groves, Ernest William Hey, 70, 71

  Gryazovets, 292

  Guderian, Heinz, 203

  Guimaraens, Phyllis, 96, 98

  Gulliver's Travels, 320, 330

  Haileybury, 158

  Hairmyres Hospital, xv, 282, 375, 378, 391, 398, 416, 419

  Haldane, J. S., 19

  Haldane, Lord, 159

  Haliborange, 141

  Hall, Colonel, 5, 5

  Hall, Peter, 341

  Halpern, Ada, 356

  Hamish Hamilton, 270

  Handley Cross, 467

  'Hanging, A', 55

  Harcourt, Brace, 281, 283, 288, 333, 369, 394, 399, 431, 447, 453, 481

  Harefield house: see 'Ravensden'

  Harper's, 39, 211, 270

  Harper's Bazaar, 435

  Harrison, Son, Hill & Co., 331, 332

  Harrow School, 26

  Haslemere, 36

  Hatchett (old), 74, 75, 125, 142, 161, 165

  Hatherley, Karen, 83

  Hawley-Burke, Dr and Mrs Noel, 10

/>   Hayes, 3, 16, 133

  Hearn, Lafcadio, 33, 34

  Heart of the Matter, The, 413

  Heaton, Nell, 253, 256

  Hebrides, 255, 270, 290, 298, 310, 443, 482; and see Jura Hemingway, Ernest, 80, 297, 301

  Henderson, Alec, 125

  Henderson, Arthur, 125

  Henlein, Konrad, 122

  Henley-on-Thames, x, 444

  hens, 59, 67, 95, 115, 123, 125, 131, 143, 149, 150, 158, 176, 351, 366, 387, 397, 408

  Heppenstall, Rayner, 515; L: 52, 81, 177, 237, 313, 325, 338; x, 23, 45, 53, 54, 105, 238, 276, 290, 314, 326, 336, 339, 460

  Heretics, The, 323, 323

  Higenbottam, Sam, 57, 58

  Hill, M.D., 304, 306

  Hilton, James, 481

  Hindi, 3, 41

  Hitler, Adolf, 58, 70, 122, 123, 133, 138, 164, 189, 191, 201, 232, 233, 237, 285, 464

  Hogarth Press, 140

  Hogben, Lancelot, 427, 427

  Hogg, Quintin, 137, 145, 145

  Holdaway, N.A., 82, 83

  Holden, Inez, 515; L: 299; xiv, 206, 235, 249, 385, 463, 467

  holidays, 7, 15, 16, 25, 26, 257, 408, 443, 469, 487

  holidays abroad banned, 385

  Hollis & Carter, 229, 230

  Hollywood, 267, 331

  Holy Communion, 20-1

  Homage to Catalonia, xi, 31, 32, 41, 74, 79, 82, 85, 93, 98, 104, 105, 106, 130, 169, 183, 211, 246, 297, 318, 319, 320, 332, 345, 478, 489, 490

  Home Guards, 115, 181, 188, 192, 204, 206, 305

  Homer, 483

  Hood, Thomas, 450, 451

  Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 225, 225

  Hopkinson, Tom, 245, 285, 286

  hop-picking, 3, 13, 47

  Horace, 16

  Horizon, 172, 174, 175, 176, 177, 178, 181, 186, 201, 213, 214, 224, 224, 353, 357, 478, 484; et passim horoscope, x, 237-8, 238

  Horton, Mrs, 238, 240, 240

  Hotel Continental, Barcelona, 70

  room searched, 83

  Hotel Scribe, 244, 245, 250

  Hotel Splendide, 46

  Hotspur, 412

  house in country, need for, 249, 250, 251, 252, 263, 288, 290, 305, 312

  'How the Poor Die', 281

  Huc, Evariste Regis, 37, 38

  Huesca, 31, 72, 91, 98

  Hugh-Jones, Siriol, 275, 289

  Hulbert, Jack, 33

  Hulton, Edward, 145, 285, 286, 328, 328

  Human Knowledge, 441, 449

  Hunt, William, 11

  Hunton, Doreen: see Kopp, Doreen Hutchinson, A.S.M., 441, 442

  Hutchinson, Lester, 463, 464

  Hutchinson, Ray Coryton, 127, 127

  Hutchinson's, 183, 229, 230

  Huxley, Aldous, 43, 448, 449

  Huysmans, Joris Karl, 15

  Hyde Park, 126

  Hymns Ancient & Modern, 410

  I Chose Freedom, 356

  Ido, 226, 227

  If, 26

  ILP see Independent Labour Party imaginary conversations, 225, 326

  imperialism: British, 39, 85, 89, 151, 214, 233, 354

  Japanese, 233

  Nazi, 233

  'In Defence of P.G. Wodehouse', 221, 256, 260

  In Defence of Women, 19

  Independent Labour Party, xii, 58, 73, 85

  Independent News, 162

  Independent Socialist Party, 58, 83, 191

  Indian Civil Service, x

  Indian Imperial Police, 3, 190, 199

  Indian Section/Service, BBC, xiii, 115, 195, 197, 227

  courses, 115, 195

  newsletters, 195

  Information Research Department, 431, 453-5

  Ingsoc, 346

  Inhuman Land, The, 292

  In Parenthesis, 436, 437, 468

  Inside the Whale, 169, 170, 172, 172, 173, 175, 178, 211, 298, 345

  Insight and Outlook, 451

  intellectuals, 124

  International Brigade, 31, 76, 78, 79, 353

  International Literature, Moscow, 80, 81

  I[nternational] R[escue and] R[elief] C[ommittee], 296

  internet websites, 505, 506

  In the Year of the Jubilee, 440

  Intimate Diary of the Peace Conference, 35

  invasion, 75, 179-81, 190, 198, 199, 237, 237, 266

  Ireland, 33

  Islanders, The, 401, 401

  Islay, 318, 348, 352

  Islington, 36, 241; and see Canonbury Square flat Jaca Road, 91

  Jack Ahoy, 33

  Jackson, Lydia, 515; L: 159, 166, 167, 261, 263, 270, 320, 359; L: from Eileen, 238; xiv, 54, 66, 68, 160, 264, 360

  Jacobs, Denzil, 115

  Jamaica, 397

  James Burnham and the Managerial Revolution, 301, 301, 319, 328, 330

  James, Henry, 408, 474

  Japan/Japanese, 35, 148, 190, 195, 198-9, 205, 233, 312, 405, 417

  Animal Farm, 414

  invasion of China, 170, 236-7, 237

  liner, 166

  Jaques, Eleanor, 515; L: 15, 20, 25, 26; xiv, 18, 23, 35

  Jardin des Plantes, Paris, 410

  Java, 288

  Jelenska, Teresa, 303, 304

  Jelenski, K. A., 303, 304

  Jellicoe Pavilion (Ward), 103

  Jellinek, Frank, 149, 421

  Jews and anti-Semitism, 37, 131, 156, 200, 201, 227, 228, 228, 232, 268, 337, 337, 380, 394, 416, 419, 421, 421, 452, 452, 457, 458, 459, 465, 491

  John o' London's Weekly, 473, 473

  Jonathan Cape, 14, 230, 231, 234, 234, 235, 235, 236, 458

  Jones, David, 437, 468

  Jones, Revd. Iorwerth, 515; L: 189

  Jones, Dr Thomas, 516; L: from Ivor Brown, 242

  Jordan, Philip Furneaux, 110

  Joyce, James, 24

  Jude the Obscure, 442, 448

  Julius Caesar, 96

  Jura, xi, xii, xiii, xv, 18, 221, 222, 255, 281-2, 288, 296, 298, 299, 300, 308, 309, 310, 311, 312, 314, 315, 316, 329, 341, 349, 353, 364, 366, 370, 379, 385, 393, 408, 424, 431, 433, 443, 450, 462, 465, 469, 474, 477, 478, 482, 484 et passim; and see Hebrides, Barnhill boat accident, 326, 363, 385

  deer, problems of, 324

  drought, 313, 363, 365

  fishing, 282, 314, 320, 323, 324, 352, 363, 389, 414, 422

  flying, 322, 348, 351-2

  haymaking, 322, 324, 326, 362, 383, 387, 414, 416

  itinerary for journey, 313, 316

  life there, 314-5, 317, 319, 325, 413

  Kaganovich, Lazar Moiseyevich, 458, 459

  Katyn concentration camp, 246, 291, 292

  Kavanagh, Mat, 463

  Kaye-Smith, Sheila, 48

  Keell, Thomas, 464

  Keep's bill, 320, 321

  Keep the Aspidistra Flying, xi, 31, 49, 52, 56, 64, 65, 66, 68, 98, 139, 165, 234, 328, 344, 345, 442

  fear of libel, 56, 57

  proof readings, 492

  Kennard, Michael, L: from Avril Blair, 415; 415

  Kenny, Miss, 249

  Kensington Gardens, 126

  Kimche, Jon, 335, 380, 380

  King Charles II, 21, 23

  King-Farlow, Denys, 516; L: 62; L: from Eileen, 110

  Kingsmill, Hugh, 412, 448, 449, 475, 476

  Kinuachdrachd, 389, 389, 390

  Kipling, Rudyard, ix, 26, 224, 483

  Kirwan, Celia, 516; L: 322, 384, 410, 457; Report to IRD: 454; 287, 323, 431, 453, 454, 456, 458

  'Kitchen Frent, The', 116

  Klose, Helmut, L: 382; 383

  Koestler, Arthur, 516; L: 285, 291, 295, 296, 348, 364; L: to Orwell, 487; 287, 292, 295, 330, 337, 411, 437, 450, 452, 468

  Koestler, Mamaine, L: 337; 287, 411

  Kolhosp Tvaryn, 304

  Kopp (nee Hunton), Doreen, 245, 257, 258, 261, 262, 264, 466

  Kopp, George(s), 516; xiv, 72, 73, 79, 83, 84, 94, 97, 146, 149, 152, 161, 162, 162, 165, 184, 185, 247, 250, 255, 378, 466

  Kopp, Mary, 255

  Kravchenko, Victor, 354, 356, 464

  Kron(d)stadt, 2
98, 334, 336, 356

  Krupskaya, Nadezhda, 354, 356

  Kwaidon, 35

  Labour Party, xii, 58, 73, 74, 87, 101, 105, 125, 131, 136, 136, 138, 139, 163, 165, 191, 210, 296, 335, 365, 380, 380-1, 385, 402, 431, 453, 458, 464, 465, 470

  Lambeth, 7, 21, 47, 47

  Lamour, Dorothy, 267, 267

  Lanarkshire, 403

  Landseer, Edwin, 318, 318

  Lane, Allen, 139, 140, 234

  Langdon-Davies, John, 92, 3, 94

  Larkin, Emma, x, 68

  Laski, Harold, 217, 275, 364, 365, 463, 470

  Lasky, Melvyn, 479, 481

  'Last Man in Europe', 346, 418

  Lawrence & Wishart, 43, 43, 140, 168

  Lawrence, D.H., 26, 48, 51, 438, 474

  Lady Chatterley's Lover, 173

  Lawrence, Martin, 43

  Lawrence, T.E. ('of Arabia'), 53, 54, 267

  Lea & Perrin's Worcester Sauce, 73

  League for the Rights of Man, 284, 285

  'Lear, Tolstoy and the Fool', 342, 353, 475

  Lee, Jennie, 517;L: to Margaret Goalby, 68; xv, 221, 174

  Lee, Laurie, 431, 434

  Left Book Club, 71, 85, 98, 133, 136, 137, 168, 174

  Left Forum, 136

  Lehmann, John, 68, 140, 140

  Lerida, 31, 83

  'Let's Act It Ourselves', 195

  Levitas, S.M., L: 468; 468

  Levy, Louis, 244, 245

  Lewis, C.S., 242, 483

  Lewis, D.B. Wyndham, 17, 19

  Lewis, John, 297

  Lewis, Wyndham, 16, 19, 51

  Liars' School, 115

  libel and defamation, 10, 15, 25, 41, 42, 47, 47, 57, 57, 86-7, 89, 100, 148, 168, 268, 282, 329, 357, 365, 375, 457, 492

  Liberation - Russian Style, 355, 356

  Libertes, 244, 245, 301

  Liddell Hart, Basil, 517;L: 203; 203, 204

  Life on the Mississippi, 19

  'Lili Marlene', 309, 310

  Limouzin, Charles, 111

  Limouzin, George, 111

  Limouzin, Ida Mabel: see Blair, Ida Limouzin, Nellie, 59, 66, 67, 74, 111

  Linklater, Eric, 391, 392

  Lion and the Unicorn, The, 115, 183, 183, 189, 232, 345

  Listener, The, L: 108; L: to Orwell, 109; 107, 108, 185, 339

  literary executorship, 317, 388, 456, 465, 486

  Little Clay Cart, 195

  Little Dorrit, 467, 468

  Little Red Riding Hood, 45, 281, 325, 326

  Little Reviews Anthology, 227, 228

  Local Defence Volunteers, 180, 181; and see Home Guard Lochgilphead, 485

  London County Council, 22, 78

  'London Letters', 206, 223, 391

  London Mercury, 19, 104, 165, 491

  L[ondon], M[idland &] S[cottish] Railway, 313, 314

  London School of Economics, 305, 365

  Longden, Robert P., 305, 306, 432

  long poem, 16

  Looe, 6, 7

  'Looking Back on the Spanish War', 224

  'Look into the Future, A', 472

  Lord Jim, 266, 446

  Lord's Cricket Ground, 181

  Lost Orwell, The, xiii, xvi, 18, 38, 65, 235, 268, 346

  Loved One, The, 413

  Lowestoft, 37

  Lucas, Scott, ix

  Lucknow, 102

  Lysenko, Trofim Denisovich, 517; 346, 347, 454

  Lyttelton, George, 304, 306

  Macdonald, Dwight,517; L: 212, 223, 283, 329, 334, 341, 353, 394, 402; 224, 284, 330, 333, 336, 342, 353, 403

  McEwan, Sally, 517;L: 244, 315, 396; 316

  McGill, Donald, 201, 225, 481, 481

  McGovern, John, 100, 101

  Mcintosh & Otis, 129, 341, 354

  McIntyre, Mr, 371, 387, 422

  M'Kechnie, Ian, 451, 452

  Mackenzie, Compton, 145, 406